As Leroy deals with losing Jennie, Donald McClendon deals with living. "If it could have been me, absolutely. I preferred it to be. You know, because I gotta live with this.”

"This" is that Sunday morning in April 2004, as Jennie was on her way to meet Leroy at church when the police cruiser driven by the on-duty officer crashed into her car.

"I don't hold any resentment or hatred or nothing like that towards him. So what's done is done,” says Watts.

Jennie was also the mother to a forgiving daughter.

"I know he didn't do it on purpose. I know it wasn't intentional. He made a bad choice that cost my mother's life and could have possibly cost my cousins' their life,” says Sherineta Morrison, Jennie's daughter.

Sherineta says she's fine with the plea deal but knows that the biggest sentence one can have is what we have to live with in our hearts and minds.

"I'm just really wanting peace out of the situation for both sides of our family. So, I'm fine with it,” she says. "I've had several people tell me that he wanted to speak with me and my family. And we're very much open to it."

She'd no sooner told us that when she put her words into action as her open arms signaled the beginning of forgiving and healing all in one embrace.

The sight of that embrace would lead one to believe that Jennie Bell Watts, the mother, wife and grandmother who was on her way to church that Sunday morning, is also at peace with this decision.

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